Skip the Takeout: Slow Cooker Chicken Teriyaki

All Hail the Mighty Slow Cooker

I go into each week with the best intentions. I plan out a glorious menu for the week with the hope of avoiding takeout, because meal planning is great way to avoid the desire to eat out all the time. It's sticking with the meal plan that can be hard.

Let's face it... sometimes cravings strike. Sometimes you may not feel like cooking or eating the meals you planned. I get it. I've been there more often than not.

I do my best to try to ensure that my family eats healthy, home cooked meals. What they don't need to know is that I finger dial our meals from time to time.

Quite often when I finger dial, it's to order Asian cuisine. Before I moved to the suburbs, I would often flock to the mall to pick up Chicken Teriyaki. Did it ever once dawn on me at the time that I could make it at home and better than takeout? Nope. In fact the thought of it was daunting. It wasn't until I was gifted a slow cooker when I got married that I took the time to learn how to cook up all my favourite takeout dishes at home.

Who doesn't love a dinner that you can quickly throw together and leave to cook all day? Especially when it comes out tasting better than takeout! As my daughter said to me tonight, "Mom and yum rhyme, and you surely put the yum into this chicken teriyaki, Mommy."

Nicole is a stay-at-home Mom to three munchkins. Life can be quite chaotic at times, but Nicole gets by one glass of vino at a time. Between balancing the joys of motherhood, and a love affair with food and fitness... Nicole is always kept on her toes!

When she's not in the kitchen you can find her surfing social media, working out, or bustin’ a move to a new tune. There’s nothing she loves more than breaking out into an impromptu dance party while whipping up a new creation!

Nicole’s a foodie at heart who loves to let her wild side explore while in the kitchen. All her meal creations are not an exact science, she loves to add a pinch of this and a dash of that to all the meals she creates. If you are looking for a gourmet, fancy meal, you are in the wrong place! Nicole thrives off quick and easy, family friendly meals that will appease her picky children and her desire for comfort food.

Nicole is known to channel her inner Gordon Ramsay from time to time. There is certainly never a dull moment! After all – no one said being domesticated in the digital world would be easy!